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"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
David Sarnoff, American radio pioneer ; 1921
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5991310 | Method and apparatus for bypassing a local exchange carrier to permit an independent central office to provide local calling services A technique for bypassing a local exchange carrier ("LEC") so as to reduce or eliminate the access charges typically payable by an interexchange carrier ("IXC") to a LEC, and, in turn, payable by the subscriber to the IXC, for originating long distance ca... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5970130 | Independent central office which provides local and long distance calling services to new residential and commercial developments A LEC bypass technique which provides analog voice grade communications from a caller to an independent Central Office (CO) for local services and/or to a long distance inter-exchange carrier ("IXC") for long distance services by utilizing existing tariff... | 10/19/1999 |
